Trick on How I Cut a Full Sheet of Plywood with a Circular Saw

I'm so sorry I've been, once again, so absent. In my last post I talked about my wacky Summer schedule, the driving I've been forced to take not only with my teen daughter, but also with my husband and his bad knee.

Well, things haven't changed much!

I'm still sitting in the passenger's seat each time my daughter wants to drive and I'm still driving my husband to doctor's appointments due to his knee surgery which got worse because it got infected. :(

Yesterday, I almost spent the entire day bringing him to the hospital for yet, another surgery to open and clean the area, since the antibiotics alone were not enough to get rid of the infection.

I'm now crossing my fingers for things to get better.

I've been working on the closet in my son's room but I haven't had the time to upload and edit lots of pictures I have on my phone.

I've got some of the materials, including three of these sheets.

And I've spent a good amount of time in my garage doing smaller cuts besides the ones I requested at Home Depot.

While I upload the pics, I'm only going to share a trick I discovered while cutting a long piece of plywood out of a full sheet.

I don't have a work cutting bench, or saw horses, and I don't like to do the cuts low on the floor.
I use a folding table to work on my projects and it's always hard to cut full sheets of plywood.
I couldn't cut a big piece with my circular saw without someone helping me hold the cut or it would simply fall on the floor!

So, I went all around my house to find something to put on the side of the table to suspend the cut. After a long scavenger hunt for the right item, I found these guys:

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Very resourceful. I do hope your husbands knee will be able to heal now. And I also have a teenage daughter driving for the hours required until she can get her license. Connie from bradshawshouse.blogspot.com

Hi Cristina!!! I love your use of the bar stools to support the plywood! By the way, coming from the medical equipment industry, sometimes your insurance will pay for a wound pump which pulls the excess liquids out of the wound, keeps it clean, limits dressing changes to 3 times a week and helps the wound close properly and quickly. Dr's often call this a wound "vac". Very expensive to rent, your insurance probably pays for part of it, but does a great job with healing. ~ Christina

Outstanding....when you see my project and post Thursday, you will understand why your post is soooo awesome...lol!!!BTW, next time, ask them to rip down the full sheets for you at the store to the width you need...most will. I know Lowes will cut your plywood to size....even if you need to rip down the width, working with 1x or 2x 8' lengths is A LOT easier than an entire 4x8 sheet! I do that and then I have an adjustable "roller" stand I place to move and hold up the 8' lengths...hard to explain...I'll post a pic someday!

Beck, You're a laugh! :D Can't wait to see your Thursday post! Most of the time I ask them to cut the full sheets to my measurements, but I wasn't sure about the measurements for the last sheet, so I brought the whole thing home. I would love to see the adjustable "roller" stand you're talking about, is always nice to learn new tricks to make things easier. ;)